KARACHI: Pakistan’s nationwide flag service, PIA has barred its pilots and flight attendants from fasting through the ongoing holy month of Ramzan on their on-flight obligation days, citing a medical advice which says an individual faces dehydration and problems with laziness and sleep whereas observing a quick. The Company Security Administration and Air Crew Medical Centre have each advisable that pilots and cabin crew members of Pakistan Worldwide Airways shouldn’t quick throughout flights.
“The PIA’s high administration, based mostly on these suggestions, has issued compliance orders to the pilots and cabin crew personnel with quick impact,” an official of the ailing airline mentioned.
“The suggestions have particularly said that when an individual is fasting, he faces dehydration and problems with laziness and sleep,” the official mentioned.
Due to these suggestions, pilots and cabin crew members have been instructed to not quick when they’re on obligation for worldwide or home flights.
A probe staff of the Aircrafts Investigation Board, which final month launched its findings into an accident of a PIA Airbus flight which crashed in a crowded neighbourhood of a housing society close to the Karachi Airport in Might 2020, blamed it on human errors.
The board held the failure of correct judgement by the 2 pilots whereas touchdown as the principle motive for the deadly crash wherein 101 folks, together with 99 passengers onboard the flight, have been killed whereas two of the passengers miraculously survived.
The report additionally held the PIA and the Civil Aviation Authority answerable for not having clear procedures on whether or not pilots ought to quick through the month of Ramzan whereas on obligation.
The PIA administration in its orders made it clear if any pilot or crew member was fasting, she or he wouldn’t be allowed to board the flight.
Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif final week authorised the privatisation of the nation’s ailing nationwide flag service PIA earlier than June 15, in keeping with media reviews.
In 2022, PIA stood because the nation’s third-highest public sector loss-making entity, requiring Pakistani Rs 11.5 billion per thirty days solely for servicing its money owed, the Specific Tribune newspaper reported.
In keeping with the PIA’s monetary report, the airline suffered a lack of Rs 60.71 billion within the first six months of 2023 due to the depreciation of the rupee towards the USD.
“The PIA’s high administration, based mostly on these suggestions, has issued compliance orders to the pilots and cabin crew personnel with quick impact,” an official of the ailing airline mentioned.
“The suggestions have particularly said that when an individual is fasting, he faces dehydration and problems with laziness and sleep,” the official mentioned.
Due to these suggestions, pilots and cabin crew members have been instructed to not quick when they’re on obligation for worldwide or home flights.
A probe staff of the Aircrafts Investigation Board, which final month launched its findings into an accident of a PIA Airbus flight which crashed in a crowded neighbourhood of a housing society close to the Karachi Airport in Might 2020, blamed it on human errors.
The board held the failure of correct judgement by the 2 pilots whereas touchdown as the principle motive for the deadly crash wherein 101 folks, together with 99 passengers onboard the flight, have been killed whereas two of the passengers miraculously survived.
The report additionally held the PIA and the Civil Aviation Authority answerable for not having clear procedures on whether or not pilots ought to quick through the month of Ramzan whereas on obligation.
The PIA administration in its orders made it clear if any pilot or crew member was fasting, she or he wouldn’t be allowed to board the flight.
Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif final week authorised the privatisation of the nation’s ailing nationwide flag service PIA earlier than June 15, in keeping with media reviews.
In 2022, PIA stood because the nation’s third-highest public sector loss-making entity, requiring Pakistani Rs 11.5 billion per thirty days solely for servicing its money owed, the Specific Tribune newspaper reported.
In keeping with the PIA’s monetary report, the airline suffered a lack of Rs 60.71 billion within the first six months of 2023 due to the depreciation of the rupee towards the USD.
